Any fun/interesting apps or games to show off Mac OS X 10.1?

[Huxley]

Hi all,

I'm going to try to get Mac OS X 10.1 running on the Blueberry iMac G3 that I'll be exhibiting this weekend, specifically in the context of comparing it to NeXTSTEP (which will be exhibited on our NeXT Cube).

It's been more than a little time since I last played with OS X 10.1, and I'm struggling to think of any notable / fun / interesting games or apps that I might install too, other than the basic Apple stuff that came built into the OS.

Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated!

Huxley

 

[Chuckdubuque]

Other than showing some of the similarities/identicalness between the NeXTSTEP and Mac OS versions of Chess, Graphing Calculator, etc. the first interesting ones were the Microsoft Office version X suite and Adobe Photoshop 6/7 (you may need to hunt for the revisions that worked on 10.1).

 

[nathall]

I don’t know about 10.1 specifically, I moved to 10 with 10.2. I used 10.2.8 for a few years before moving to 10.4. I remember back at the time, it was very easy to find versions of games and apps that worked with OS 10.1/10.2, even as we moved through the 10.4/10.5 years.

I recently re-installed 10.2.8 on my 8500/G3 to relive those years and have been dismayed to find a vast amount of software that worked on anything pre-10.4 has virtually vanished from the web, save what little there is on the Garden. There are many out there that I remember owning and running under 10.2.8, and you can even find references to in text, but you won’t ever find them. Usually you can still find a version of something that will run on 10.4, but prior versions for 10.1 and 10.2 are just gone.

Makes me wish I was more proactive in archiving stuff during those early post-floppy years. Please let me know if you find a treasure trove of this sort of thing.

 

[finkmac]

StevePerfect

but actually though. why not do some research? it's fun!
look through the apple website circa 2001. plenty of shiny new OS X apps there.

versiontracker circa 2001 will have you covered for shareware kinda stuff.

if that's not enough, just browse macintoshgarden by year

 

[obsolete]

I was a fan of TuxRacer in the early OS X days.

 

[aladds]

I’d search archive.org for Mac magazine cover disks from late 2001 / early 2002. I know there are a few MacFormat ones on there, for instance.

 

[robin-fo]

Try PangeaSoft games like CroMag rally

 

[joshc]

Can't remember which games work on 10.1 but Unreal Tournament and Halo are a possibility I think.

 

[Snial]

Well, to be facetious; why not port a variant of Doom? After all, it was written on the Next Cube (well, probably the Color Next Turbostation) in the first place! It would make an interesting comparison!

 

[ArmorAlley]

Mac OS X introduced a higher supported RAM ceiling and SMP (symmetric multi-processing) but these are of little benefit to your iMac G3.
If you had one of the dualies (say a dual 500Mhz G4 Gigabit Internet) with 2GB RAM, you could demonstrate the same Carbon apps running on Mac OS 9.2.2 and Mac OS X 10.1. Photoshop, 3D-rendering would be good examples (although I have a vague memory that Photoshop 7 supported dual processors in Mac OS 9...).
Otherwise try the server software that came out early for Mac OS X (Xserver?).
As for actual apps/games, the idea of mac magazines from 2001 is the best idea.

 

[slomacuser]

There is a Bomb app on developers CD disk that represented the difference in “crashing” an app in Classic Mac OS or in OS X.

 

[Huxley]

These are great suggestions - thanks everyone!

H.

 

[olePigeon]

I don't remember what it was called or if you'll be able to find it, but there was an extension that had the "aqua" spill out of progress bars when they got to the end but didn't finish.

 

[Huxley]

I don't remember what it was called or if you'll be able to find it, but there was an extension that had the "aqua" spill out of progress bars when they got to the end but didn't finish.

Hahaha damn, that's hilarious! I haven't thought about it in 20+ years, but I feel like I installed something that did that trick back in the day - maybe from a MacAddict CD-ROM?

 

[olePigeon]

Might be on a MacAddict CD-ROM. I've tried different variations of searching for it on Google, but I can't find anything. I installed it on all our eMacs in one of the labs where I worked.

 

[joshc]

Not sure if compatible with 10.1, it definitely worked on 10.2, but there was also Shapeshifter. You could make it look like Windows, BeOS, classic Mac OS, or NeXTSTEP. very similar to Kaleidoscope on Mac OS.

 

[nathall]

Shapeshifter was awesome on 10.2. I remember having a lot of fun with it back then.

 

[adespoton]

10.0 and 10.1 were both still really "public beta" versions of OS X. Most people were still doing OS 9 as their daily driver because those versions were slow and buggy, and developer support was still hit and miss. 10.2 fixed all that.

@olePigeon, do you remember the name of the extension? It seems to me it should have been on MacAddict, MacFormat, Info-Mac or the UMich Archives. Or was it something pulled off the BadMoon server?

I may or may not still have a chat log where you talked about installing it on the eMacs

 

[olePigeon]

@adespoton I don't know the name, unfortunately. Was trying to find it. I wanna say I downloaded it from somewhere.

 

[joshc]

Shapeshifter was awesome on 10.2. I remember having a lot of fun with it back then.

Yeah, same. I never really used 10.1 much, only briefly on my iMac G3 but it was slow and buggy. OS 9 was so much faster. Once 10.2 came around though, things were much improved and I did eventually switch to that as my full time OS.